3/21/2024
Ryan Willerton, Associate Vice President for Career and Professional Development presented on the exciting things that his team uses data for to help students on their career path. Jonathan Anderstrom, Insurance & Financial Risk Assistant Manager, Treasury Services shared his team’s journey in making the shift to a metric’s-focused culture. Cheryl Schlimpert, Endowed Programs Program Manager in Accounting & Financial Services, demonstrated how to automatically send Qualtrics data to Tableau as a data source by way of Google Sheets. Jennifer Brackett, Assistant Registrar, and Amanda Ackerman, Application Developer on the Enterprise Data & Analytics team in OIT, shared a few ways to present sensitive data.
Instructions on using Qualtrics Data as a Tableau Data Source (Cheryl’s presentation)
Example Google Sheet for incoming Qualtrics Data (Cheryl’s presentation)
12/4/2023
David Bailey, Vice President for Institutional Research, Innovation and Strategy, kicked off the meeting by discussing data sharing and responsible use of University data. He thanked our group for the work we’ve done with data & analysis, helping people to make better decisions and move projects forward. We will continue to work together to help achieve the objectives in the strategic framework. Mike Brach, Campus Data Steward (OIT), continued the discussion around responsible use and data sharing. Helen Hockx-Yu, Enterprise Architect (OIT), presented on finding the right storage solution for data. Joe Lyphout, Program Director Faculty Data & Systems (Office of the Provost) and Pieter Visser, BI Solutions Architect (OIT), demonstrated and shared some time-saving tableau tips and tricks. Links to the tableau workbook, which includes these tips, and to the DIY challenge are included in the slide presentation. Dana Schrader, Business Intelligence Professional (IRIS/OIT) shared a fun holiday trivia use of Tableau. Matt Smith, Project Manager (OIT), closed out the meeting by providing information on protecting collaborative content in Google & Box.
9/21/2023
John McGreevy, Charles and Jill Fischer Provost, spoke about the University Strategic Plan and the importance of data, analytics, and reporting to implementing, measuring, and tracking the initiatives within the framework. Joe Lyphout (Office of the Provost) and Pieter Visser demonstrated and shared some time-saving tableau tips and tricks. Links to the tableau workbook that includes these tips and to the DIY challenge are included in the slide presentation. Kate Moody (Center for Career Development) spoke about steps to consider when publishing a dashboard to Tableau Public. The Center for Career Development First Destination dashboard is published to Tableau public and a link can be found in the slides. Dana Schrader (IRIS/OIT) and Steve Sporinsky (OIT) wrapped up the meeting sharing some of the Tableau training that we have done in the past and asked for feedback, via a survey sent out after the meeting, on future office hours and learning opportunities.
6/19/2023
Jane Livingston (VP for Information Technology and CIO) and David Bailey (VP for Strategic Planning and Institutional Research) spoke on their support for this group and how we can build the reporting and analytics culture at the university. Adrea Hernandez (OSPIR) and Mary Tarsha (OSPIR) presented on conducting surveys at the university and best practices. Kendall Smith (OSPIR) spoke on Artificial Intelligence and use cases in higher ed. Jess Langager (OIT) wrapped up the meeting with tips on where to find OIT supported tools and software to improve your workflow.
Zoom Recording of Meeting (Passcode: pu2.b3Qk)
3/30/2023: The First Meeting
Our kick-off meeting included a introduction to the group and why it was formed, breakout sessions to meet others and learn how they use data now and how they’d like to improve data usage in the future.